Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World is a syndicated television series loosely based on the 1912 novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World. The show premiered in the United States in the fall of 1999 (after the TV-movie/pilot aired in February on DirecTV and then on the cable television channel TNT in April), [1] it ran for three seasons before it was cancelled on a cliffhanger in 2002 after funding for a fourth season fell through. To this day, the cliffhanger remains unresolved. All three seasons were released in DVD box sets in 2004.

The first part of the series originally aired on Pay-per-view via DirecTV in the summer of 1999 before it aired in syndication. Pay-per-view aired the show uncensored, containing nudity and extended scenes. The syndicated version on TV and DVD releases are edited.[2][3][4][5][6] Following the limited run on PPV, the first broadcast TV run of the series ran weekly in syndication on hundreds of stations in the United States,[7] including the WB 100+ group stations, a joint Time Warner and Tribune Broadcasting entity, because of syndex rules the show aired one week later on Superstation WGN,[8][9] and on the Space TV network in Canada.[10][11] The series later aired in Europe on the SciFi Channel Europe.[12] The series continued to be rerun in daily strip form in the United States on Time Warner owned TNT in the early morning hours Monday through Friday.[13] Eventually the series was removed from the schedule after the DVD release in the United States by a third Time Warner company New Line Television, sold the DVD region 1 distribution rights to Image Entertainment. The DVD region 2 distribution rights were sold to Liberation Entertainment.

Contents

Plot1

Characters2

Plateau Animals2.1

Episodes3

Season 4 Information3.1

Cast and crew4

International Distribution5

DVD Releases6

Trivia7

References8

External links9

Plot

At the dawn of the 20th century a band of adventurers, led by adventurer and scholar Professor Challenger, embark on an expedition to prove the existence of a lost world isolated from the rest of the modern world. The British expedition team, consisting of a mismatched group of enthusiasts, all with less than selfless reasons for making the journey, begin their trip under less than ideal conditions. The intrepid band consists of Professor George Edward Challenger, Professor Arthur Summerlee, Marguerite Krux, Major Lord John Richard Roxton, Edward T. Malone.

During their journey disaster strikes and their hot air balloon crashes in the uncharted Amazon jungle, where they end up on the prehistoricplateau. There they find themselves trapped and isolated in this dangerous land. The group is assisted by a young jungle-savvy woman named Veronica Layton, whose parents disappeared eleven years before. Her family was part of a research group that became isolated and was then lost under mysterious circumstances. Together with a young woman from the future named Finn (Lara Cox), the group fights to survive against carnivorous dinosaurs, vicious Neanderthals, a race of lizardmen, and other perils as they search for a way to escape. The stories usually worked out that two separate adventures were going on at the same time.

Marguerite Krux (played by Rachel Blakely) — The selfish financier of the expedition who goes along for her own reasons.

Lord John Richard Roxton (played by William Snow) — The nobleman with vast hunting experience, who accidentally killed his brother while trying to save him from an ape. He serves as protector of the group.

Edward "Ned" T. Malone (played by David Orth) — An American newspaper reporter, hoping to make a name for himself and impress his girl back home, if he survives the ordeal.

Herrerasaurus - The Herrerasaurus appear in Blood Lust, Out of Time, The Beast Within, Absolute Power, Time After Time, Prodigal Father, and The Chosen One. The Herrerasaurus have double crests on its head just like Dilophosaurus but in real life they don't have crests.

Troodon - The Troodon was to have debuted in Season 4 and with human like intelligence.

Tyrannosaurus - The Tyrannosaurus are recurring predators in the series, where each one tries unsuccessfully to catch and eat the main characters.

Episodes

Episode #

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

1

The Journey Begins (Pilot pt. 1)

All or Nothing

Out of the Blue

2

Stranded (Pilot pt. 2)

Amazons

The Travelers

3

More Than Human

Tourist Season

An Eye for an Eye

4

Nectar

Stone Cold

True Spirit

5

Cave of Fear

Divine Right

The Knife

6

Salvation

Skin Deep

Fire in the Sky

7

Blood Lust

London Calling

Dead Man's Hill

8

Out of Time

The Prisoner

Hollow Victory

9

Paradise Found

The Games

A Witch's Calling

10

The Beast Within

The Source

Brothers in Arms

11

Creatures of the Dark

Trophies

Ice Age

12

Tribute

Voodoo Queen

The End Game

13

Absolute Power

The Guardian

Phantoms

14

Camelot

Under Pressure

The Secret

15

Unnatural Selection

The Outlaw

Finn

16

Time After Time

Quality of Mercy

Suspicion

17

Prodigal Father

Mark of the Beast

The Imposters

18

Birthright

Survivors

The Elixir

19

Resurrection

The Pirate's Curse

Tapestry

20

The Chosen One

The Visitor

Legacy

21

Prophecy

A Man of Vision

Trapped

22

Barbarians at the Gate

Into the Fire

Heart of the Storm

Season 4 Information

The producers of the show have revealed some details of the proposed fourth and even fifth seasons from 2002. If the subsequent season had been produced, fans would have learned that professor Arthur Summerlee was indeed alive, residing in Avalon. Avalon, near the border of the Plateau, is where Veronica's surviving mother Abigail Layton had become the Plateau's protector soon after her disappearance. She became the ruler of Avalon and had left behind a triangle artifact- the Trion, the Eye of Heaven- for her daughter Veronica to find. Veronica was to become the new Protector of the Plateau. Her tree-house dwelling was apparently the epicenter of the entire Plateau.

The new season would have also revealed that Marguerite and Roxton were always meant to be together from the beginning. As Veronica is the new Protector of the Plateau, Marguerite is a descendant of Morrighan, her ancestor whom came from "the line of Mordren;" they are the opposing forces against the Protectors. Marguerite as the "third power" within the Trion forces, was a free will agent allowed to choose good or evil in the battle against power over the Plateau. Roxton, Marguerite's knight, protector, and future groom would have been her personal guide so that Marguerite would ultimately choose "good." Also, because of Marguerite's Celtic heritage within the line of Mordren whose presence is on the Plateau and Veronica's bloodline with the Protectors, Veronica and Marguerite are cousins genetically, but spiritually are sisters. Roxton's role as Marguerite's modern day knight originates with his childhood and ancestral home having close proximity to Avebury, nearly twenty miles from Stonehenge. Finn would have been revealed to be Malone's great great granddaughter, her grandmother being the Amazon Phoebe (also played by Lara Cox) whom Malone had sex with in the episode "Amazons"[14] The series would have been resolved with Malone and Veronica getting married and staying in Avalon, while Challenger uses his teleportation invention from the episode "Finn" to send himself, Roxton, Marguerite and Summerlee to London but travels forward in time to the year 2005 where they are welcomely greeted by the zoological society due to Malone having sent them a letter explaining when they would arrive.

Cast and crew

The list follows the credits order. The seasons during which each actor has been included in the main cast are marked in black. Note that the actors don't necessarily appear in every episode during their time as a main star.

When a starring actor also has appeared as a guest star during other seasons, this is marked in gray, with the number of guest appearances noted in italics. White square means the actor doesn't appear in that season at all.

Trivia

Lara Cox appeared in the second half of the third season as Finn, but was never given credit in the opening credits. In the 2nd season episode "Amazons" she had a guest appearance as the Amazon "Phoebe".

William deVry played Ed Malone in the two-hour telefilm that preceded the series (the film was split into two episodes for syndication purposes). David Orth took over the role at the start of the series proper.

The character of Arthur Summerlee, as portrayed by Michael Sinelnikoff, was killed off in the first season finale, but returned once as a ghost during Season 2. Prior to the pilot for this series, Sinelnikoff had also played the character of Summerlee in the 1998 cable TV movie version of The Lost World, in which Summerlee is killed by a T-Rex, and which otherwise had different actors, and with only those series characters which came from the book (Challenger, Roxton, Malone).

During the third season both David Orth and Jennifer O'Dell were absent from the series for several consecutive episodes, due in part to financial constraints.

Season 1 episode "Blood Lust" about vampires aired in syndication in the United States Halloween weekend 1999. Season 2 episode "Stone Cold" was also promoted as a special Halloween themed episode in 2000.[29]

References

^"SPECIALS on TNT". turner.com. Archived from the original on 8 May 1999. Retrieved 25 August 2015.

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